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Show The Niearagua Canal. C lili ago Tribune. Jesse Laing of Galveston, Tex., one of tho contractors of tho Maritime Canal company, which is to build the big Nicaragua canal, is registered at tho Grand Paeilie. Mr. Laing feels confident that the big undertaking will iia a success, and talks this way about it: "The canal will cost about one hundred hun-dred million dollars, but that is not much when you lake into consideration that tne earnings of the canal by tolls will amount aunually to millions. The work can be completed within six years, if no trouble about the money end of the enterprise arises, and if the governments of Nicaragua and Costa Kieu protect the workmen. If any trouble is created by those two nations, I'ncle Sam should go .down there and give them such a thrashing they would never recover from. The canal will not only be a boon to Costa Hiea and Nicaragua, but to the eutiro civilized world. Six years after we start on this job you will not hear of vessels going around the Horn. I think the United slates seems disposed to aid in building it, and wants to control the enterprise. I have looked over the ground thoroughly, thor-oughly, and thore is no opportunity for failure like DcLesscps' pet scheme. It would just take six years' time and one hundred million dollars. |